It is with a heavy heart it must be reported that your intrepid reporter kind of, sort of, in some way, OK, I was guilty of disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, and verbal abuse of a minor. Allow me to plead my case:
I went to fetch lunch for DW and I at the Subway today. Against my better instincts, I went through the driveup rather than go in and watch them make the sammiches. I ordered a cold cut combo and a BLT for my beloved child bride. When I got home, mine was as ordered, she got a bacon, lettuce and tomato. Minus the lettuce and tomato. I could have handled it better,but I just lost it. Stormed back to the store, asked a kid behind the counter who was obviously saving up for his first razor what a BLT was. He said, bacon, lettuce and tomato.
‘So why did you only put bacon on it?’
‘We don’t put anything on it unless the customer orders it.’
‘Then why don’t you just call it a B?’
‘A lot of people order it that way.’
‘Look, kid, nobody comes in here and pays 6 bucks for a piece of bread with 2 strips of bacon on it. Don’t pee on my back and tell me its raining.’
Then another girl jumped in and stated that’s the way they were told… only put on what the customer specifies. She didn’t fare any better. It was lunch and there were about a dozen people inside. I don’t know how many were amused and how many were annoyed. At that point I didn’t much care. There was an older man behind the register and he said for what it was worth, he agreed with me. I just get fed up with really stupid people who think they’re worth $15/hour.
Apparently in Obamaworld, independent thought and common sense are frowned upon. Guess I won’t be going in that store again for a while.
Perhaps I’m an embarrassment to my family,but my grandmother didn’t suffer fools lightly either.
polination.blog 
The height of etiquette: Michelle Obama towers over Japanese emperor as she stumbles in silver stilettos while attempting awkward curtsey
Mrs Obama towered over Emperor Akihito and stumbled as she tried to bow, shake his hand and curtsey at once
She also grabbed Japan’s First Lady in a hug-and-handshake combination while she was mid-bow
The awkward trip is being described as a ‘makeup call’ after Mrs Obama failed to accompany the President to Japan last year
THEY’RE REMAKING THE OLD 50’S DRIVE-IN CLASSIC,”ATTACK OF THE FIFTY FOOT WOMAN”
DID SHE JUST PUNCH THAT WOMAN IN THE STOMACH?
Mooch Ditches White House Curtains, Wears Kenzo Dress For Japan Visit…
THIS DRESS COSTS MORE THAN YOU MAKE IN A MONTH.HAVING A GREAT TIME,YOU WHITE RACIST PEOPLE.
SUFFER,BITCHES!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3002178/Michelle-Obama-towers-Japanese-Emperor-Akihito-smiles-awkwardly.html#ixzz3UwyXlIqy
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3001778/US-1st-lady-visits-Japan-showcase-girls-education-aid.html
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Judge: Sanctions possible in Obama immigration court case
THE HONORABLE JUDGE HANEN IS LABORING UNDER THE FALSE IMPRESSION THAT THIS BASTARD GIVES A WHIT FOR ANY LAW.HE IS AN ISLAND UNTO HIMSELF.HIS RULES.
A federal judge who has blocked President Barack Obama’s immigration executive action suggested on Thursday that he could order sanctions against the Justice Department if he rules it misled him about when exactly the administration began implementing one of the measures.
http://news.yahoo.com/hearing-set-allegations-immigration-lawsuit-052210088.html
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I’m counting on this Judge Hanen to hold this executive amnesty up until Obama is out of office. I have a feeling that if there is a way for him to do that, he will.
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I’m thinking maybe Judge Hanen should have someone else start his car for awhile …
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Once Again, Obama Quotes Bogus Nuclear Weapons Fatwa in Annual Nowruz Message
WHAT WOULD POSSESS AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT TO SEND BEST WISHES TO THE IRANIAN AYATOLLAHS ON THEIR NAWRUZ?NOBODY HER KNOWS OR CARES WHAT IT IS…EXCEPT MUZZIES
As I have said many times before, I believe that our countries should be able to resolve this issue peacefully, with diplomacy. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons, and President Rouhani has said that Iran would never develop a nuclear weapon. Together with the international community, the United States has said that Iran should have access to peaceful nuclear energy, consistent with Iran’s international obligations. So there is a way for Iran—if it is willing to take meaningful, verifiable steps—to assure the world that its nuclear program is, in fact, for peaceful purposes only.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/03/once-again-obama-quotes-bogus-nuclear-weapons-fatwa-in-annual-nowruz-message/
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Obama pal Nesbitt orchestrates purchase of posh Hawaii house
The home sale was reported by KHON, the Pacific Business News and other Hawaii news outlets. The Pacific Business News reported the sale price for the beachfront home at $8.7 million and that “the entity that recently closed on the sale, Wamanalo Paradise LLC, lists as its manager Judy Grimanis, an executive assistant for Chicago-based venture capital and private equity firm The Vistria Group.”
BET HE GETS AS GOOD A DEAL AS HE GOT FROM THE NOW-IMPRISONED TONY RECZKO ON HIS CHICAGO DIGS.
http://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/7/71/454859/obamas-buy-house-hawaii
White House: Obama Not Behind Sale Of Hawaii Magnum P.I. House
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest flatly denies that the Obama family was behind the sale of a home in Hawaii featured in the popular 80’s television show Magnum P.I.
“They are not,” Earnest said shortly when asked by reporters whether the family was behind the purchase of the home.
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If only he would go there and stay put….
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What A Joke: ABC, CBS, NBC Have Spent Only 11 Minutes On Clinton Foundation Scandals In 2015
THIS IS PRECISELY WHY SHE’LL STORM TO THE PRESIDENCY.THE GAME IS RIGGED,REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU HEAR.
In fact, the Clinton Foundation scandals have gone largely ignored by the three broadcast networks in 2015, as the swirling controversies have garnered a total of 11 minutes and 13 seconds of airtime on their evening and morning news shows. And the Spanish-language newscasts on Univision and Telemundo have completely ignored the Clinton Foundation 2015 controversies.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2015/03/18/nets-devote-only-11-minutes-clinton-foundation-scandals-2015
Are Networks Going to Bury Emailgate?
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED
Rutten wrote there were two kinds of confirmation. One occurs when an editor mutters, “Find somebody and have them make a few calls.” Or “there’s the sort that comes when that editor summons an investigative reporter with a heart like ice and a mind like Torquemada’s and says, ‘Follow this wherever it goes and peel this guy like an onion.'”
This ice-veined Torquemada approach was applied to every 2012 Republican presidential contender. It’s already on display in this cycle against GOP front-runners Jeb Bush and Scott Walker. Is Hillary Clinton’s status as the one and only Democratic hope in the field going to cause the liberal media to fold and avoid damaging the Democrats?
http://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/2015/03/18/are-networks-going-to-bury-emailgate-n1972211?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
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I love the look on that little girl’s face!
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Heroic moment Waffle House diner confronts man who was beating a woman at the next table
•The veteran approached fellow diner after spotting another man with his hands around a woman’s neck
•The beefy stormed over to a table and grabbed the alleged woman beater by the shirt
WISH I COULD HAVE SEEN IT
BULLIES WHO PREY ON THOSE YOUNGER AND WEAKER ARE ALWAYS COWARDS WHEN CONFRONTED WITH EVEN ODDS.
The sight of a woman being struck was simply too much for a diner at a Waffle House who decided to take matters into his own hands.
After seeing a man put his hands around the neck of a fellow customer, the war veteran marched over to the table to lay down the law and put the alleged abuser in his place.
‘You touch her again and you will be my motherf***ing breakfast,’ he bellowed, grabbing the man by his shirt. ‘What you going to do to me?’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3001790/I-eat-breakfast-Man-eating-Waffle-House-confronts-diner-hit-throttled-woman-table.html
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Blacks and violence . Where one is, the other inevitably follows. Good for the “hero” vet for stepping in, but he went about 300% overboard, could have accomplished the same result without taunting “Shoot me, motherf***er!” and provoking a beat-down brawl. I guess when you’re a hammer everything looks like a nail.
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Boehner plans to sideline House conservatives in budget battle
SSSS…WE’RE REALLY GONNA STAND UP TO THE DEMOCRATS THIS TIME,JUST RE-ELECT US
Whipsawed over the past several years by its rank-and-file, especially the most hard-core conservatives, GOP leaders appear determined to take charge. Boehner and McCarthy have divvied up responsibility for the two major pieces of legislation. Boehner is working to ensure passage of the so-called “doc-fix” package, while McCarthy is overseeing work on the budget resolution, said GOP leadership aides.
Huelskamp isn’t far off the mark. It’s one thing to work with the Democrats to pass legislation. It’s quite another to bypass a sizable segment of your own caucus and pass something over their objections while conspiring with Democrats to do so.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/03/boehner_plans_to_sideline_house_conservatives_in_budget_battle.html#ixzz3UxGpGR1O
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I guess what happened to Eric Cantor did not scare them one little bit.
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Haitians Protest Outside Of Hillary Clinton’s Office In NYC Over ‘Billions Stolen’ By Clinton Foundation
THEY THOUGHT THE MONEY WAS THEIR FEE…FOR BEING THERE
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REPORT Exposes MO Crony Capitalism: Wind Farm Project Made Carnahan Family Rich at Expense of Consumers
THE CARNAHANS ARE TO MISSOURI WHAT THE KENNEDYS ARE TO TAXACHUSETTS AND THE LANDRIEUXS ARE TO LOUISIANA
Missouri Democratic Family Goes Green–
Tom Carnahan, brother of Secretary of State Robin Carnahan and former Rep. Russ Carnahan, was gifted with $107 million in stimulus money for his wind farm project in Missouri.
The Carnahans got a windfall in stimulus dollars. Missourians got the bill.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/03/report-exposes-missouri-crony-capitalism-carnaham-windfarm-cost-missouri/
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6-year-old heart patient’s shooting death rattles St. Louis
OUR CITIES ARE TURNING INTO THE WILD WEST.THERE WAS A DRIVE-BY IN OUR TOWN LAST NIGHT WHERE TWO GIRLS WERE SHOT OUTSIDE AN ICE CREAM STORE
The occupants of a car fired on the family’s minivan as it left the park. The boy’s 15-year-old brother and a 69-year-old family friend were also wounded.
The boy’s father, Marcus Johnson Sr., said he returned fire in self-defense as the rolling shootout continued for several blocks. Three other children — ages 8, 10 and 11 — were also in the vehicle.
http://news.yahoo.com/6-old-heart-patients-shooting-death-rattles-st-051645474.html
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Ed Henry to Josh Earnest: The Admin Was Quite Critical of Republicans Sending Letter To The Leaders of Iran, How Is Sending a Video Message to Them Any Different?
SILLY PEOPLE.DON’T YOU KNOW BY NOW RULES DON’T APPLY TO TEH WON?
Follow up is just as good-
Ed Henry: President Obama has addressed the Iranian people about the deal, why hasn’t he addressed the American people?
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Obama Takes His Rage to World Stage
Why is The New York Times lamenting the souring of the personal relationship between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instead of assuming Obama will subordinate his personal feelings to America’s national interest?
Well, probably because they know he won’t. He’s a man scorned — and he’s getting more and more dangerous. Scorned? Yes, because when you don’t bow to the wishes of a man with his personality, he apparently takes it as a personal affront.
http://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2015/03/20/obama-takes-his-rage-to-world-stage-n1973394
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I’ve definitely been there before, Pete. You’re not alone with the occasional loss of patience in retail hell. 🙂
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I suppose I could have gone back and quietly ask for lettuce and tomato on DWs BLT,but,dammit,there’s a limit to how much stupid you should have to tolerate.They’re probably all democrats anyway.
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I lost it with a clerk in the fish department at WalMart once. She started crying and I realized what a WITCH I was being to someone who had no say at all in how the fish were cared for.
I apologized and she said, “I don’t know what you think I can do.”
I said, “If you would just promise to pass on to your boss that these kind of fish should never be in the same tank with that kind of fish, that would be plenty.” She said she would.
I stopped shopping there so have no idea if they wised up or not.
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UNION HACK Sues Illinois to Get Back $30,000 Pension After Working ONE DAY as Teacher
THIS IS WHY OUR STATE IS TENS OF BILLIONS IN DEBT
After working one day as a substitute teacher in Illinois, David Piccioli could be entitled to an annual pension of more than $30,000.
And he’s suing the state to make sure he gets paid.
Piccioli is a retired union political activist who’s already pulling down a pair of state pensions from Illinois’ beleaguered public retirement system. But he’s taking the Teachers Retirement System to court to squeeze more money out of the state.
The Chicago Tribune reported Thursday that Piccioli is already collecting $31,000 annually from the Teacher Retirement System, but he could get an additional $36,000 annually if he wins his case. He’s also collecting a $30,000-pension from a different state retirement system for his time as a legislative aide in Springfield, according to the Tribune.
Piccioli is a retired lobbyist for the Illinois Federation of Teachers and never worked in a classroom, but he took advantage of a loophole in Illinois pension law to score his teaching pension.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/03/union-hack-sues-illinois-over-30000-after-working-one-day-as-a-teacher/
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He’ll get his in the end.
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ISIS Takes Credit for Nowruz Bombings in Yemen That Kills 200 Shiites
APPARENTLY BARRY’S NOWRUZ VIDEO DIDN’T IMPRESS TOO MANY PEOPLE.
“God willing, this operation is only a part of a coming flood,” the group said in a statement posted by supporters on Twitter.
One suicide bomber struck inside Badr mosque in southern Sanaa while another targeted worshippers as they fled outside, witnesses said.
A third suicide bomber tried to blow himself up a mosque in the northern Houthi stronghold of Sadaa province but failed, killing only himself, a security source told Reuters.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/03/isis-takes-credit-for-nowruz-yemeni-bombing-that-kills-200-shiites/
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There haven’t been any police come to visit,so apparently nobody swore out a complaint.Maybe I should start Pete’a bail fund….BB could throw a few thou
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I’m pretty sure none of those counter workers will ever NOT ask “Do you want lettuce and tomato with your BLT?” ever again.
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“a lot of people order it that way.”
Holy cow, that’s surreal they would answer that way.
Bacon only. That’s the new BLT under His Royal Jug-earedness
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Meanwhile, back in the real world, here is a trio of links I found over at Chicks on the Right that I thought I’d forward. Be warned that, taken together, they may make a serious assault on your lachrymal glands.
Some things I can’t stand to read. I read the quotes on CotR page but didn’t click through. Article here.
“…I argued that we should make an attempt to resuscitate him, to get him breathing. The resident doctor told me, ‘This is an abortion. We have no right to interfere.’…”
Blind Devotion. Nine minute film.
Ninety-Nine Balloons — “He lived for 99 days, with his parents documenting each day of his life and compiling it in this short video…”
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How does “BLT” sound even remotely like “bacon sandwich”?
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When Pete said he asked the kid at Subway if he knew what BLT meant, I thought he was gonna say the kid said “Bisexual Lesbian Transgender.”
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This might also amuse you.
“Right now, lurking in your radio, is something so…so hideous…so backward….that it threatens to destroy gender equality as we know it.…”
—Amy Miller at Legal Insurrection
Dear Future Husband by Meghan Trainor
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The different things Pete has posted here are of such variety, comparing them is like comparing pineapples to hand grenades, but the one I would nominate for best of the day is the Common Core Math one. That wet cat pic is the perfect illustration for that “math” problem.
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Remember when they tried “New Math” on us back in elementary school? In my school, they tried it for one year and it was a disaster, and the following year they went back to using the old math. Thank heaven.
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bob: “Remember when they tried ‘New Math’…”
I was in 9th Grade, IIRC, when they initiated New Math. Having a good grounding in “old” math, I could understand what they were getting at, and had some idea what they were trying to do, but I thought it was silly and useless and would surely be totally confusing to those who didn’t have such a good basic grounding. Hey, I was right about something! (Once, long ago.)
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I was in fourth (or was it fifth?) grade the year my school tried it. As I recall, I didn’t find it particularly difficult, just as I had never found the old math particularly difficult — I just thought it was weird. No one was disappointed when the school abandoned it after one year and went back to the old stuff. Why are they always trying to fix things that aren’t broken?
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I was in the fifth grade, and our school got some books to experiment with.
It wasn’t “adopted” but it was another resource for teachers. Our teacher gave the books to the kids who finished their seat work quickly. I actually loved it. It was like lots of puzzles, and much better than sitting there bored to death. It really was pre-algebra. When I went on to teach math many years later, I had a real appreciation for it. It takes some of the fear that a lot of kids would experience when all of a sudden there were letters added in with the numbers in the problems. The “new math” just expanded the curriculum to actually include math, and not just arithmetic. It wasn’t new at all – it was just that the concepts had never been taught in lower grade levels before.
Now the common core math is something that I do not appreciate at all. Anyone that advocates that an erroneous answer is just fine and dandy in plain old arithmetic is up to something really, really bad.
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Interesting. I remember very little about those new math books themselves (which were not optional, and not reserved for the smarter kids or those who finished their work early). I mostly remember that because it was considered something “new,” that automatically meant the kids at my school from second grade up were considered “behind” in math, since we had been using old math all those years. In order to catch us up to where the new curriculum thought we should be, we had to do five pages a day in our workbooks. This wasn’t a problem for me, because as I said I didn’t find any of it particularly difficult, but there were many kids in my class who complained bitterly about it and insisted that they couldn’t keep up. In fact it generated a lot of math anxiety in kids who had never suffered from math anxiety before that year. That was probably the worst consequence of it.
I’m all for offering enrichment activities to the smarter students who are not being challenged by the regular curriculum, which is what it sounds like your school was doing. They took a much more intelligent approach to the subject than my school did.
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I think that all of that “new math” just got integrated in with new textbook adoptions, etc. eventually and it didn’t cause quite the stir when it later happened like that. For example, I used to do quite a few enrichment lessons for kids all over the schools systems in Richmond and the surrounding counties. We did things like M & M math, where we used the candies to represent “x” and solved equations, with 1st graders. They had no problems and no anxiety because they thought it was a game. They had no idea they were doing algebra. Once they got the hang of M & M’s, we would use other objects. Toy cars, lego blocks, what ever. Then we would switch over to little pieces of cardboard that had letters. Voila! They didn’t have any fear of that letter getting added to the mix, which is usually the main cause of math anxiety. They understood that the letter could have been an M & M or a car, or a lego and they knew what to do with it.
In kindergarten, I would work with pattern recognition with the kids since they didn’t have the arithmetic down enough to solve equations. I would bring lots and lots of red and white wooden cubes for them to manipulate. I had big 12 inch cardboard squares and I would make patterns on the floor with them. We would clap and dance and chant and then they could see what would come next. All of that would have been considered new math just a few years before, but I think it made them all like it for the most part. They also didn’t get quite as blown away in high school when the serious topics were introduced. They already knew what was going on, but they just might not have had a name for the process.
I admittedly haven’t had time to study the common core curriculum, but the examples that I have seen are not a thing like “new math”, which was striving for actual accuracy!
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Wow, you were a really fun teacher! I wish more teachers would take that approach to teaching math.
But now you’ve made me curious — what motivated you to leave teaching and go into construction?
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I didn’t – not directly anyway. I started as a banker, got bored after a few years and moved on to teach at a Math/Science Center owned by 5 different school systems. They came to us on field trips, and we also went out to the schools to give lessons that teachers had to stay for. We were essentially teaching the teachers how to make it fun and interesting and left lots of materials and lesson plans for them to continue on with neat activities. But I had to keep teaching the same lessons over and over, which got old, and I was dealing with a few health issues so I left and went to work in the Financial Aid office at the University of Richmond. I stayed there about a year but left when I had to pursue infertility treatments fairly aggressively. I worked part time for a life and health insurance agent, and did consulting work on converting old-time accounting to computer software programs for various groups and businesses. Shortly after my son was born I added in bookkeeping for a builder. After a few years of that I started my own company, with my husband’s help, because I realized I could do all of it better than the guy I was working for. This was about 3 months before my daughter was born. I have stayed with that, so I guess I finally found the thing that gave me a lot of flexibility with my time, and kept me interested because every project is different.
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You started your own software business? I had no idea! I wish I would have asked more questions when we talked earlier in the month. I did something very similar back in 2010, but gave it up when I hired on with my current gig. Is it hard to keep a small business going in VA?
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No, no. I started a construction business. I build houses, additions, renovate, that sort of thing. The software consulting I did was way back in the early and mid 80’s on the first generations of desktop PC’s. Little businesses and organizations thought they had to have these little (somewhat affordable) computers and then they didn’t know what to do with them. Some folks just called me to help teach them how to run the programs and get their accounting going. I never really made that a business. I just charged an hourly rate and went when I could – I had a baby and then later a 4 year old and a baby so I never worked at it everyday.
As far as keeping a business going in VA – it has been hard in the Obama years, just because people are afraid to spend money. Those that are want the absolute cheapest way to get the job done, which is not me. I only use skilled craftsmen so I am never the low bidder. Depending on the framework of the organization, I don’t think it is too hard, but I don’t have anything else to compare it to.
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Oh, I see. So it’s probably your doing that your husband has to drive that weird GM pickup as a company car, hmmm? Kidding! I know what you mean about construction/remodeling keeping your interest. I love that kind of work and do a lot of the grunt work part of it at church and at home. To me, it’s true art. Art that people can use. But I hear you on the lean times thing. It’s never fun doing everything as the lowest bidder. Maybe things will look up if we get a change at the top. Let’s hope!
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Oh, yeah. If we get a change at the top I am thinking that the Cap’n will not have to work for the guy (not me!) who gave him the weird pickup truck to use. It is weird but it is free! He wanted something different, a Denali, but didn’t feel he could be too specific when they were spending so much money on him.
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